Madison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2015
10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Arizona v. Youngblood · Perry v. Goss · 156 Ind. App. 233 - Coffey v. Wininger · Kremer v. State · Bryan v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The penalty prescribed by the Legislature is irrelevant to the jurors in the performance of their ‘guilt assessing’ duty, and they should be oblivious to the Legislature’s punishment scheme since judges rather than juries now fix sentences .... The penalty of death[,] however!,] for the commission of a crime must be recognized as unique and singular. The possibility of the imposition of a death sentence can be an ever present and secretly held concern of prospective jurors in a murder case and as such might reasonably be expected to improperly influence the manner in which they answer questions on voir dire. It cannot reasonably be said that defendant’s subsequent trial was rendered unfair by the remarks of the judge which were calculated to prevent prospective jurors from engaging in improper speculation about the propriety of the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Coy v. State“provocation.” Defendant defines provocation as "conduct that arouses the emotions of an ordinary man so as to obscure his reasoning powers”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.